Concepts

All distinguishable and identifiable "things" in DSB are called concepts. In hypergraph terms, concepts are the nodes between which there are hyperarcs that give the relationship between concepts.

Concept Characteristics

• Created to represent distinct "things".
• Are empty, they do not have any properties or contents.
• They may be treated as if they exist and be referred to using singular terms.
• Need not refer to any real object. They may refer to abstract "things".
• There can be an unbounded number of them, but not an actual infinity of concepts.
• All objects are just concepts and their relationships.

Concept Identify

Two concepts are the same if and only if they are involved in identical relationships.